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> Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future I wish they had taken this advice instead of just giving up. A massive part of
by jonplackett 3y ago
> Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future
I wish they had taken this advice instead of just giving up.
A massive part of the value of flash was the authoring tool. It let non-coders make interactive things easily by just adding code straight to their designs.
Having non-coders able to express their ideas like this is good and I miss it. The next closest thing would probably be Unity, or maybe Effects House / Spark AR for making insta and tiktok effects. But these are obviously totally limited to their own platform.
Nothing has truly replaced flash for this purpose.
- bsimpson 3y agoThey technically rebranded Flash as Animate, but it conceptually died then. IDK how Animate handles ActionScript, but it doesn't seem like it's still used by hobbyists. I presume it mostly exists to enable banner ad animators (and maybe low-fi television animators) to keep their Flashy workflows.
- kmeisthax 3y agoAnimate still supports AS3 export, or at least it did the last time I needed to build a test SWF for Ruffle. AS2 export was removed when they rebranded to Animate.